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political correctness
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political correctness

Shorthand term for a set of liberal attitudes about education and society, and the terminology associated with them. To be politically correct is to be sensitive to unconscious racism and sexism and to display environmental awareness. However, the real or alleged enforcement of PC speech codes (‘people of colour’ instead of ‘coloured people’, ‘differently abled’ instead of ‘disabled’, and so on) at more than 130 US universities by 1991 attracted derision and was criticized as a form of thought-policing.



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